PyGSL Reference Manual

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Contents

• 1. System Requirements, Installation
  • 1.1 Status
  • 1.2 Requirements
  • 1.3 Installing GSL interface
• 2. pygsl.const Mathematical and scientific constants
  • 2.1 pygsl.const.m Mathematical constants
  • 2.2 pygsl.const.mksa Scientific constants in mksa units
  • 2.3 pygsl.const.cgsm Scientific constants in cgsm units
  • 2.4 pygsl.const.num Scientific number constants
• 3. pygsl.chebyshev Modules in Testing
• 4. pygsl.deriv Numerical Differentiation
• 5. pygsl.histogram Histogram Types
  • 5.1 histogram -- 1-dimensional histograms
  • 5.2 histogram2d -- 2-dimensional histograms
  • 5.3 histogram_pdf and histogram2d_pdf
• 6. pygsl.rng Random Number Generators
  • 6.1 Random Number Generators
  • 6.2 Probability Density Functions
  • 6.3 Using probability densities with random number generators
• 7. pygsl.sf Special Functions
  • 7.1 Function list
  • 7.2 Return values
  • 7.3 Error handling
• 8. pygsl.statistics Statistics functions
  • 8.1 Organization of the module
  • 8.2 Available functions
    • 8.2.1 Mean, Standard Deviation, and Variance
    • 8.2.2 Absolute deviation
    • 8.2.3 Higher moments (skewness and kurtosis)
    • 8.2.4 Autocorrelation
    • 8.2.5 Covariance
    • 8.2.6 Maximum and Minimum values
    • 8.2.7 Median and Percentiles
    • 8.2.8 Weighted Samples
  • 8.3 Speed considerations
  • 8.4 Further Reading
• 9. pygsl.testing Modules in Testing
  • 9.1 pygsl.testing.sf Special Functions as UFuncs
  • 9.2 UFuncs
  • 9.3 Ordinary Functions
• A. pygsl.ieee Floating Point Unit Support
• B. pygsl.init Library initialisation
  • B.1 Exception handling
  • B.2 IEEE-mode
  • B.3 random number generators
• C. pygsl.errors Error and warning classes
  • C.1 Exception Classes
  • C.2 Warning Classes
• D. GNU Free Documentation License
  • D.1 Applicability and Definitions
  • D.2 Verbatim Copying
  • D.3 Copying in Quantity
  • D.4 Modifications
  • D.5 Combining Documents
  • D.6 Collections of Documents
  • D.7 Aggregation With Independent Works
  • D.8 Translation
  • D.9 Termination
  • D.10 Future Revisions of This License
• Index

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PyGSL Reference Manual

Previous: Front Matter Up: PyGSL Reference Manual Next: 1. System Requirements, Installation

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Release 0.2, documentation updated on January, 2005.